The camera doesn't lie

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Wed Oct 13 14:30:23 UTC 1999


THE CAMERA DOESN'T LIE

    "The camera doesn't lie" is a seemingly popular quotation/proverb/idiom,
but I couldn't find it in Christine Ammer's AHDOI, Nigel Rees's DOC,
Partridge's DOCP, Stevenson's quotations, Oxford's CODP, and Meider's DAP.
    This is from PHOTO-ERA MAGAZINE, January 1931, pg. 4, col. 1:

_The Camera Lies_
(...)  We are so accustomed to looking at ourselves in the mirror, and seeing
our best profile, that occasionally we are quite shocked when a camera
exposes a view to which we are not quite accustomed.  The camera lies.
     The truth of the matter is, however, that the camera doesn't lie; it
merely turns our conceit inward.


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